Hello, everyone! I'd like to embed PDF files in the browser (mostly mobile). We'd like to avoid solutions that first must go through Google or what have you for privacy reasons. I know this is possible by way of various services like FlexPaper or PDFTron, but FlexPaper doesn't work so well for a lot of our mobile devices and other services are quite expensive. Is there a simple way to just display the PDFs even forgoing a lot of the additional functionality those other services provide? Or perhaps a nice simple open-source version?

01-18-2013, 08:18 PM

felgall

The simplest way to embed a PDF into a web page using any version of HTML is

<img src="mydoc.pdf">

Those solutions you mention are for generating PDFs and not for simply embedding them in a web page.

01-22-2013, 03:41 PM

EricMatthews

Thank you. That seems to work okay for the iOS side except it doesn't seem possible to scroll through the content (whereas on the desktop it lets you scroll within the allotted area). Our Android tablets won't render it at all. The main devices accessing the PDFs are Android tablets. Not sure what else to try really.